Gate-latch



7 (No Model.) S. PUGSLEY. 1 GATE LATCH.

N0. 357,787. Patented Feb. 15,1887.

N, PE'rEfis, Fl-mn-time n hlr. Washington. D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL PUGSLEY, OF NEWV ROCHELLE, NE\V YORK.

GATE-LATCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,787, dated February 15, 1887,

Application filed October 21, 1886. Serial No. 216,865. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL PUGSLEY, of New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Gate-Latch, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of a gate and the gate posts having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is asectional plan view taken on the line :0 x of Fig. l; and Fig. 31s an enlarged detailed sectional plan view of one of the gate-posts, the front bar of the gate, and the latch-rod, the pivoted plate of the latch being shown in dotted lines.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claim.

The gate A is hinged to the post B in the ordinary manner, and is provided with the latchrod 0, adapted to be engaged by or to engage with my new gatelatch D, secured to the post E. The latch-rod O is held in vertical position at the edge of the gate A, as shown. The

latch D is composed of the frame a, pivoted tumblers b, and the plate 0, pivoted to the framea on the pivot-pin o. The tumblersb are nearly circular in form, and are pivoted in a chamber, 1), ofthe framea, and are each formed with a projection, e, and straight shoulder c, which latter serves as astop to strike the shout der aof the frame a, to prevent the tumbler from swinging outward too farthat is, beyond the point at which the projection 0 stands well out from the frame a and in the path of the I latch-rod O, to act as a stop to the gate when the gate is closed. The plate 0 is notched at its front edge to form the two projections, d d, between which the latch-rod 0 stands when the gate is closed. The outer ends of the plate a are beveled, as shown at t i, so that the latchrod 0 will strike these edges when the gate is closed and swing the plate 0 back, to permit the latch-rod topass the projection (Z. By this arrangement the gate may be locked from either direction by turning 011601 the other of the tumblers b to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 3. Y

The latch-rod G has a spring action, so that it will pass the tumbler b, which it first strikes in closing the gate, the said tumbler swinging to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, so that the gate cannot open of its own accord.

In pushing the gate open the latch-rod G will first strike the shoulder f of the tumbler band swing it to the position shown in full lines on the lower part of Fig. 3, which swinging action moves inward the latch-rod G and causes it to pass the tumbler without friction; and this shoulder assists in holding the gate closed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the frame a, of the pivoted tumblers I), having projections e,

shoulders e and f, the notched plate 0, piv-' oted in the said frame a, and the latch-rod at tached to the gate, substantially as described.

' SAMUEL PUGSLEY. Witnesses:

EUGENE LAMBDEN, JOHN F. KENE. 

